Below is an interview I conducted with Karla Renteria, who works as a business development manager in Intel’s Sales and Marketing Group (SMG). While trying to understand what it is like to work in SMG, Karla explained to me how her job goes way beyond “just selling,” and how she enables the amazing experiences that Intel’s cloud solutions make possible.

At the most basic level, what do you do as a business development manager (BDM)?

What I get to work on is pretty exciting. As a BDM, I work with customers to understand what they are trying to make possible in the future. Our customers are working on numerous things that will impact the digital experience of millions of people. It’s my job to help enable their vision with use of Intel cloud technologies and solutions.

How do you feel like your job enables you to make an impact?

Many people think my job is “just sales,” but it’s not. By understanding how businesses are trying to serve their own customers, I help define Intel’s cloud platform of the future. Depending on the need, I have to help facilitate many solutions: How can we make sure the solution is fast and responsive? How will the client app be made available on a mobile phone? Ultimately, I help facilitate all the things that Intel helps deliver with their cloud solutions. The real exciting part is I get to understand how companies like Pinterest, Facebook and VMWare are trying to change the game in their respective fields. In doing so, I get to play a role in creating the experience of how everything is going to connect – from the cloud to client devices. My work in this space is going to help our customers create those amazing experiences that will truly ‘Wow’ people.

How precisely are you enabling these capabilities?

We listen to what our customers are requesting. Once we understand their needs, we will typically present a few solutions that will work to create the experience they are looking to achieve with their customers. The fun part is we can also introduce something new, like CPUs for video support, cognitive computing, Machine Learning – something that will improve the platform and experience beyond what they currently provide for their customers.

Can you tell me about a specific solution you helped bring to market as part of your work with some of your customers?

So I can’t tell you what I’m specifically working on right now, as it’s not public yet. However, members of my team in SMG have partnered with Facebook to help enable the Open Compute Project (OCP). It’s these partnerships that are really making a tangible impact on the industry. (Editor’s Note: The OCP is an organization whose mission is to design and enable the delivery of efficient server, storage and data center designs for scalable computing.)

Tell me about the SMG Culture? What do you like? What should people know about it?

Oh, let me tell you about this team. Everyone is taking risks. Everyone is customer oriented and—as you’d imagine in a sales organization—they are very results oriented as well. They are all highly motivated and qualified people who support each other on their team, and whose ultimate goal is to deliver high end results to their customers. From a “great place to work” perspective, we believe in giving back to the community and participate in volunteer events as a group.

Anything about the compensation structure in SMG that you like or find beneficial that others may not know about?

I’ve been in sales for a long time, and the one thing I do like about sales at Intel is that you define with your manager your goals for the year. I find that in doing this collaboratively, the goals are challenging but realistic. It’s very important for me to have say on my yearly expectations.

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2Working in Technical Sales at Intel in Europehttp://blogs.intel.com/jobs/2016/11/04/working-technical-sales-intel-europe/About UsAround the GlobeLife At Intelgermanyintel jobsjobsPolandsalessales jobsUKJobs @ IntelFri, 04 Nov 2016 15:08:34 PDThttp://blogs.intel.com/jobs/?p=3508Intel is the world’s largest and most successful producer of transistor technology in the world, but if you think PC technology is all Intel does, think again. We are innovators that are seeking to develop solutions to a broad spectrum of problems faced by all kinds of organizations the world over. Though we are in the best position to answer the needs of the rapidly evolving technology world, in order to do so we need sales professionals like you to deliver our comprehensive, end-to-end solutions to where our customers need them most.

Working for Intel’s Sales and Marketing Group (SMG) in Europe means shaping the way customers view the possibilities of technology. We don’t just sell products, we enable the transformation of organizations to meet the demands of today’s high speed technical world. Our sales professionals must be motivated to connect with our customers and gain a full understanding of the most basic problems that these organizations face on a daily basis. Armed with that level of business savvy, our technical sales professionals can connect to one of the broadest portfolios of technical solutions offered by any company in the world in order to find the solution that will truly impact our customer’s way of operating. Whether you are serving multi-billion dollar companies, sharp up-and-comers, or governmental agencies, Intel seeks to use technology to provide smart solutions that can revolutionize the way the world operates.

In addition to the scope of the position, you will be joining an organization vested in providing an environment that is diverse, meaningful, and empowering. We believe that true innovation can only happen when people of many backgrounds can share their ideas equally at the table, and so we strive to represent the world we serve. We also understand that your talent is most productive when it is applied to the project which ignites your passion. That is why we enable our employees to experience multiple possible careers and work on a variety of projects, even if they may not be directly related to one another, to find that project that you will be able to invest yourself into. Finally we understand that work isn’t the only priority in your life, and our flexible work programs and generous family benefits stand to make sure your job doesn’t stop your life.

“Intel’s Technical Sales Group in Europe has a very open culture and everyone that I have worked with has been great. I have had the opportunity to work on the latest technologies and engage with the key customers of the business to help them solve real problems. I have also had opportunities to attend Intel internal and external trainings/conferences and travel to other Intel sites for networking with my colleagues. In short, working with SMG has been an amazing learning experience!” Taniya Singh- Solutions Architect, Technical Sales, Germany.

Amazing works here. Are you interested in being a part of Intel’s Technical Sales team? Check out our opportunities in Germany, Poland and UK and apply!

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1Get to know 6 ‘secret’ Intel U.S. benefitshttp://blogs.intel.com/jobs/2016/10/31/get-know-6-secret-intel-u-s-benefits/About UsLife At InteladoptionbenefitsfertilitygymiescIntelIntel Education Service Corppersonal trainingsabbaticalshuttlespatalent communityunited statesUSusaRaj SuriTue, 01 Nov 2016 08:14:24 PDThttp://blogs.intel.com/jobs/?p=3469I work in recruitment marketing and every so often I get to drop in on new employee orientation sessions. It’s always fun to talk to new employees during their first week at Intel. Being that I’m in Arizona, topics that always seem to come up are the dry heat and where they can go to get great Mexican food. Being that food is one of my favorite pastimes, I’m always happy to suggest my favorites.

Outside of food and weather related topics, the other thing I hear the most is how surprised they are to learn about the variety of services and benefits that Intel makes available. Many of them applied for a job at Intel not knowing much, if anything, about our benefits. Made me realize, I probably need to do a better job of getting the word out on these “secret” benefits. So, here we go!

The king of all benefits – Intel’s Sabbatical Program

Cathy just got back from sabbatical where she visited Ireland and many Irish pubs. Click to enlarge.

This is definitely the most coveted benefit at Intel and the one new hires seemingly drop their jaw at when they discover it. Every 7 years you can take an 8-week, fully paid sabbatical. Want to take time off sooner? You can opt to take a 4 week paid sabbatical after 4 years instead. You have up to 3 year once you’re sabbatical-eligible to take your time off, so there’s plenty of time to plan and save for the perfect experience.

Your sabbatical is taken in addition to your regular paid vacation allowance for that year, and the time off comes with no strings attached. During my first sabbatical (I’ve been on two) – I took a nice little trip to Southeast Asia where I visited Hong Kong, Malaysia, Indonesia, Thailand and Singapore. I know, not too shabby. It’s not that uncommon for your co-workers to remind you of what you left behind when you come back.

Intel’s Air Shuttle

Fly the friendly Intel skies!

It may not offer frequent flyer miles, but Intel has a fleet of private airplanes available to all employees at major campuses. It’s a key element in face to face collaboration and innovation. With delicious snacks, beverages, and wifi – you’ll almost wish all air travel could be this easy – plus there’s no taking your shoes off for security in our private terminals. It’s not uncommon for me to jump on the shuttle early morning in Arizona and meet my colleagues in Oregon for an important issue. I’ll back in Arizona in the early evening just in time for dinner.

Adoption and Fertility Assistance

Intel recently expanded their fertility and adoption benefits in 2016, helping us lead the industry in family-friendly benefits. Having the ability to grow their family in a variety of ways has made a difference in countless employee’s lives.

I know from friends of mine what an exciting step it is to bring an adoptive child into their family. Intel employees that are considering adoption for their family plan are eligible for up to $15,000 per finalized adoption with no lifetime maximum. Fertility benefits are also available up to $40,000, with an additional $20,000 for prescriptions and no medical diagnosis requirements.

Onsite Spa

SPA isn’t just another Intel acronym – it’s actually one of those luxurious relaxing places you’d usually visit after work. Only now you can stop in between meetings. I’m guessing you probably didn’t realize many of our campuses have onsite spas where the top service requested is a pedicure. While services aren’t free, it’s nice to be able fit in a quick neck massage during your lunch break.

Free personal training and group fitness

All Intel employees receive 3 free personal training session and unlimited large and small group training sessions from our corporate wellness partner, EXOS. Coming from a guy whose primary source of exercise was curling my remote control, this has been a nice addition in my quest to get more fit.

Intel Education Service Corps

Intel Education Service Corp, otherwise known as IESC, is a favorite among employee benefits. You can apply to be a part of a team that travels to developing nations for three weeks at a time to enable Intel technology. The individuals pictured traveled to Rwanda for their adventure. By bringing Intel technology into the classroom to help enhance the teaching and learning experience, they were enabling the true digital classroom!

The benefits listed above are for general full time employees of Intel as of Oct 2016. Benefits are reviewed continuously and can be augmented, modified or removed in any given year.

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6Living our Intel Values as LGBTQ Employeeshttp://blogs.intel.com/jobs/2016/10/10/living-our-intel-values-as-lgbtq-employees/Diversity and InclusionLife At IntelStacy TowlesMon, 10 Oct 2016 19:39:06 PDThttp://blogs.intel.com/jobs/?p=3456A note from Bev Crair, Vice President, Software & Services Group and General Manager Strategic Software Programs Initiatives.

As Intel celebrates National Coming Out Day on Tuesday, October 11, I’m reminded of my Intel recruiting experience in 2010 – which was a testament to a company that strives to uphold a culture where every employee is valued and encouraged to bring their whole selves to work. It’s a company where you can be “out.” It’s a company full of amazing people who make a difference in each other’s lives.

Joining an Intel “family”

Living in the Bay area for many years, my (now) wife and I had grown accustomed to the environment that the greater Bay area provides the LGBT community. My decision to join Intel was contingent on whether we felt comfortable leaving the welcoming environment of the Bay Area for Arizona. We had serious reservations about making such a move – which I expressed to the Intel recruiter. Whether our concerns were based on factual evidence or in misperception, they were present nonetheless. What unfolded next was nothing short of awesome.

To help us understand the Intel (and Arizona) environment, the recruiter connected us with members of the Arizona chapter of IGLOBE (the Intel Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender, and Allied employee resource group). My wife and I were introduced to other LGBT employees in the business group that I would later be joining. We were brought to Arizona for meetings and discussions about what life is like for “people like us” – both in Arizonaand at Intel. The care, concern, and level of effort by everyone at Intel was truly inspiring. From that moment it was apparent what our decision would be. It was also apparent that we were joining an Intel “family” that was inviting us with open arms.

Inspiration for living “out” at work

Being this out at work is new for me. I’ve been out to some people at my previous roles with other tech companies, but never as visibly or with as much acceptance as here at Intel. My experience has been that I definitely have more of myself to give to my team because I’m just not hiding anymore. My colleagues ask me how my wife is doing, and where we’re going scuba diving next – without blinking. I also have been fortunate to be able to help some of them with their own LGBTQ situations – they know they can come to me with questions or concerns without judgment. With regard to being a lesbian – I see it as a part of who I am. I’m also a businesswoman, a mother, and a wife. My parents taught me to “live who you are, and have the integrity to keep growing into that throughout your life.” When I told my mother I was a lesbian, she was pretty upset. Her immediate concern (echoed by most parents of LGBTQ children), was that I would ‘live a hard life’. She worried about how ‘at risk’ I would be. I remember telling her at the time that I couldn’t notcome out because I wouldn’t be living the values that she and my father taught me. I knew that I had to be my full authentic self. This is an ongoing growth process that continues to enrich my life with each passing year.

My initial experience with choosing to make my home and build my career at Intel was nothing less than inspirational. After six years, it continues to be a journey where I am compelled to promote that a success path as an LGBT employee is attainable. There are many employees whose life experiences differ. Their varying level of comfort and reserve with being out at work is understandable. Part of having an inclusive environment is to have compassion and understanding for the individual and their perspective based on their life’s experiences.

A vision for success

Last year, I heard Kenji Yoshino speak about “covering”. He noted that 80 percent of LGBTQ employees spend energy on protecting themselves instead of applying their skill and passion toward creating innovative products and solutions in the workplace. Propelled by the philosophy my parents instilled, and inspired to give back to Intel – I decided that it was time to start the Intel Out and Ally Leadership Council. Our mission is to provide an LBGTQ escalation path with the right connections for people to get help when they need it. As senior LGBTQ employees and LGBTQ Allies, we help shape a vision for LGBTQ success at Intel. We continue to broaden the Intel family, share ourselves, and contribute to the spectrum of amazing professionals who thrive in their careers at Intel.

I’m proud to be part of a company that places a high value on individual contribution. A place where LGBTQ employees know they can be themselves and provide value and encouragement to those coming up the success path behind us. We’re choosing to not only grow into our lives with integrity, but to do so joyfully – using all of our energy to solve amazing problems and create amazing experiences, rather than ‘covering’ who we are. And who wouldn’t find happiness in coming out to that?

Today we are talking with Jonathan Stern, SPDK and ISA-L Applications Engineer with Intel’s Data Center Group (DCG). Jon sheds some light into the mission and culture of the DCG at Intel and the amazing difference IT professionals can make when they work here.

Significance and Impact

From my perspective, data centers are where all of the most exciting developments are happening with respect to the maturation of IT. In the modern world, everyone uses services that rely on servers—for example, email—but very few people have their own servers. They use clients hosted in data centers around the world to enable some of the most basic functions we associate with IT devices, they never actually see the servers. We’re in the middle of a generational shift where more and more of our computing is being done in the data center rather than locally, and we just access a small part of that power and information as we need it. At the same time, the cost of running these data centers has become low enough that the services they can provide can be offered for free by subsidizing the cost with ad revenue. Which is why you don’t have to pay for email or many cloud storage services. This dynamic is leading to a world in which data centers are playing a central role in how we view computer capabilities in a practical sense, and from my perspective, Intel is one of the leaders of this revolution by providing the best parts—hardware and software—to improve the capabilities of these data centers in a tremendous number of areas. We’re basically building the infrastructure that will support the next generation of computing devices. Though a lot of innovation is being done in the space above us, we are making that innovation possible by creating the roads and tracks that other companies’ vehicles can run best on.

The Difference of Working at Intel

There’s a few key points to why Intel is in a position to advance this field. One is our breadth. Because we reach into so many areas, it enables us to get a good understanding of our customer’s problems and then do the hard work of bringing genuinely new technology to market that can address those problems. We don’t have to be constrained to finding workaround solutions to problems using existing technology, we can actually question the nature of the problem and design new technology from the ground up to address it. Additionally, when we come up with that new technology, we have what it takes to actually bring that to market. It’s easy to prove something in a lab and create a proof of concept, but making that idea practical and marketable enough to ship is very hard. Intel DCG can actually make this possible because our breadth allows us to understand and work on every aspect of a problem and create a complete solution that integrates the new idea rather than just a component.

Another point is that Intel applies its new developments to its own IT organization. When you are running IT for a company as large and technically invested as Intel, you are going to need IT solutions that are robust enough to handle some pretty extreme needs. By taking the approach of developing for our own organization as well as others, we improve our understanding of our customers’ perspectives and needs, because we are customers ourselves.

Working in DCG

One of the best things about working in this group is the ability “get in the trenches” and get a working understanding of the situations our customers have to deal with. That experience permeates our working culture and leads to a genuine desire to find real solutions for real problems rather than just chasing after minute improvements in specs.

I also want to talk about the impact diversity has in our group. Having a lot of different ideas at one table is immensely important for driving the conversation, and you get that degree of variance in ideas by including a diversity of backgrounds. For example, I am currently working with a team that works on storage. That’s a big category, and there’s a lot of different ways of thinking about how to go about creating storage solutions. Perspectives on my team come from people with backgrounds in each of those arenas and all over the world. By hashing out a problem among all these different frames of mind, we can achieve a much stronger sort of innovation than if we were to only follow one philosophy. This also has the effect of requiring our explanations of our thought processes to one another to be extremely detailed, so our points are understood, which can reveal underlying assumptions that can be challenged.

Pride in your Career

I feel a great sense of pride when I see the ramifications of future technology being developed in the other business units here and get into the work of making the data center ready to support that technology. Knowing that my work is enabling all of those interesting developments in IoT, Connectivity, and Cloud software to provide the amazing experiences they advertise because they can make use of the infrastructure that I had a hand in putting together, it makes you feel like you are working on the backbone of all the technology we are using now and in the future.

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3Working on IoT at Intel – What you can expecthttp://blogs.intel.com/jobs/2016/09/09/working-iot-intel-can-expect/About UsLife At IntelIntelinternet of thingsIoTjobsjobs at intelJobs @ IntelFri, 09 Sep 2016 11:34:13 PDThttp://blogs.intel.com/jobs/?p=3427Recently, some of our veteran project leaders took time out of their busy schedules to talk to us about what it’s like to work at Intel and why they have devoted their considerable talent to Intel.

The first to speak to us was Brian McCarson, Senior Principal Engineer with the Intel Internet of Things (IoT) Group. He provides us with some insight into the incredible things that we are doing in the realm of IoT and the amazing people that make it happen.

The Value of IoT at Intel

People don’t usually think of Intel as the connective fabric that brings computing devices together. Instead, they usually think of us as the “brains behind the box.” To me, IoT is valuable for Intel because it moves us out of the background and puts us in a position to be that connective fabric, to create and enable a system of systems, or a network of devices that connect to other devices to provide unique value and deliver new kinds of experiences with technology.

One of Intel’s biggest places of development right now is in the Cloud. But when you think about the cloud, the place where you are uploading your pictures or videos, you don’t think about Intel; you think about some server or data center somewhere out there, even though Intel is often what powers those servers. By contrast, IoT is what actually touches the human user. From automated cars to wearable devices, its present in our everyday environment while the cloud feels far away. IoT takes the power of that distant cloud, and puts it at our fingertips, letting us actually experience what it means to have devices that are able to talk to one another and work together to create something greater than the sum of its parts.

Why Intel is such a good place to develop IoT devices

Intel is uniquely positioned to provide you with compute, connectivity, and storage from the smallest individual device level—with our Q—all the way up to and including massive Data Centers.

As devices continue to get cheaper, and smaller, and more powerful with the advance of Moore’s Law, we are able to put powerful transistors into places that we never could before. Right now, it costs us less to create a transistor that can turn off and on 30 billion times a second than it would cost a farmer to produce a single grain of rice. Thanks to that, we can put computing capabilities into places that you wouldn’t have even dreamed of two years ago. We can turn sensing capabilities into processed information right at the source, improving speed and usability to an amazing degree. At the same time, Intel’s capabilities in the Data Center and our world class security and device management software enables us to see the whole picture. Because Intel covers such a wide range, we have a much more complete view of the whole product and can work to improve every part of the product to achieve the best results.

The Work Culture of Intel’s IoT Group

The first thing I think about when asked about our culture is what this company and our group represent from the standards perspective. Intel is often viewed as the gold standard of compute tech. Because Intel is so active in our participation with IoT standards consortia around the world, many people rely on us to determine how to make the IoT market move faster.

Working in this environment means that if you have an idea that you are passionate about, you can get your message out fast, and with the backing of a well-respected brand so people sit up and pay attention.

Back in 2014, when we launched the Intel IoT platform, no one knew what to make of it, as we were the first major company announcing such a thing. Since then over 300 companies have announced their own platforms. We were the ones making the market and defining the taxonomy for these new spaces of innovation. It’s exciting to know that your work can have that level of influence.

The internal culture here is an environment that strongly embraces diverse thinking and diverse backgrounds. Regardless of who you are, where you went to school, or where you come from, everyone comes to the table with a voice based on the validity of their technical argument, and nothing else.

Even though my role is CTO of IoT Strategy and I have several decades of experience, I have interns on my team that challenge me regularly. They come to me and say “No, this makes absolutely no sense. We could be doing something so much more powerful than what you are thinking by making x, y, and z changes.” And I take that to heart and take their views as seriously as I would someone with 30 years of experience. There aren’t many companies out there where you can come in as a freshman or sophomore in college, and if you’ve got a passion for an idea that you want to see happen, you can pitch that idea to senior leaders and see action actually happen around it. Along with everything else, the level of open communication and collaboration is really what makes me proud to be a part of this team and Intel.

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6Intel Honored Once Again on Glassdoor’s 2016 List of ‘Best Places to Interview’http://blogs.intel.com/jobs/2016/08/19/intel-honored-glassdoors-2016-list-best-places-interview/Intel in the NewsawardGlassdoorIntelinterviewJobs @ IntelMon, 22 Aug 2016 13:10:04 PDThttp://blogs.intel.com/jobs/?p=3416Intel received recognition this week from Glassdoor.com in their Candidate’s Choice Award for Best Place to Interview. The list, composed of the 50 businesses with the best interview experience as rated by interview candidates themselves, included major names in a wide variety of different industries. Ratings were based on a combination of positive interview ratings, interview duration and interview difficulty.

Job interviews are an excellent opportunity not only for a business to evaluate a candidate, but also for that candidate to get a sense of the culture and structure of the company. Intel is dedicated to finding talent that is driven and diverse in both background and thought. If you are interested in seeing how you could become a part of our culture and create the amazing, sign up for our talent form today.

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5Ascending Technologies Soars Ahead of the Curve with Intel RealSense and you’re Invited to Join!http://blogs.intel.com/jobs/2016/08/01/ascending-technologies-soars-ahead-curve-intel-realsense-youre-invited-join/About UsIntel in the Newsascending technologiesdroneIntelIoTjobsJobs @ IntelMon, 01 Aug 2016 15:15:44 PDThttp://blogs.intel.com/jobs/?p=3413Science Fiction is full of examples of machines that can scan an object or an area and provide information about what they are looking at to an operator. Now that technology may be closer than ever thanks to new innovations made by Intel and our recently acquired partners at Ascending Technologies (AscTec) in Krailing, Germany. With Intel RealSense technology, AscTec is creating UAVs capable of amazing things. At its core, Intel RealSense is a system of sensors that not only identifies obstacles, but provides a machine equipped with it with something we take for granted, depth perception. By granting this sense to AscTec’s drones, we enable a UAV to not only detect objects in its path, but to autonomously navigate around the object and return to its previous flight path. This allows the drone to deal with unexpected interruptions in its path as well as enables it to execute a simple follow command without getting stuck or confused should it detect an obstacle. By itself, this level of autonomous navigation is extremely impressive, allowing a drone to move around more freely without the need of a human operator directing its every movement, but the precision of RealSense enables the drone to accomplish many things beyond the capabilities of the naked eye. Like scanning an aircraft’s hull for damage while moving freely around it through the air, or creating incredibly detailed scans of landscape for topographical maps.

The potential real world applications of this technology are nothing short of extraordinary, and now we want you to join us in bringing that potential to the world. We have expanded our efforts from the PC realm to AscTec’s drones and the myriad other devices that make up the Internet of Things, and we need talent that is capable of helping us realize our vision of bringing smart, connected devices to everyone on Earth. We seek to create full, end-to-end solutions making use of new, advanced, drones connected to the Cloud. This is made possible thanks to the broad network of support and inventive talent that Intel brings together to collaborate toward the world’s most innovative solutions. Intel taps into a broad range of skills, from aeronautics engineers to digital security professionals, to create things that are more than just gadgets, they are experiences. So what are you waiting for?

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UX Designer Pete Denman’s Talents Led Him to Stephen Hawking. His Success Shattered Myths and Broke Down Barriers.http://blogs.intel.com/jobs/2016/07/12/ux-designer-pete-denman-and-stephen-hawking/About UsDiversity and InclusionLife At Inteldiversitydiversity & inclusionStephen HawkingUser experiencePaul TawadrousTue, 12 Jul 2016 07:50:08 PDThttp://blogs.intel.com/jobs/?p=3392

When Pete Denman, at age 20, broke his neck in a diving accident that left him paralyzed and in a wheelchair, he knew the event would alter the course of his life. But he couldn’t have imagined that his new trajectory would eventually lead him to a collaboration with one of the most brilliant scientific minds of a generation. And he couldn’t have foreseen that his efforts to improve Stephen Hawking’s quality of life would be just one of his many contributions to making the world a better place—both through his work at Intel and with organizations that help people with disabilities.

Pete’s involvement with Stephen Hawking began in 2011, when Hawking contacted Intel to ask if the company could help him improve his communication speed. By then, Intel had already been working with Hawking and providing him with specialized computer equipment for several years. When then-CTO Justin Rattner, who was tapped to lead the effort, assembled a team, he reached out to Pete. “It was no mystery why I was put on that particular project,” says Pete. “Because I have a level of empathy for Stephen that no one else can match. I know what it feels like to be in a seated position and what it means not to have the ability to do, and interact with, and experience things in the same way that an able-bodied person would be able to.”

Pete’s ability to identify with Stephen at a deeper level allowed him to pick up on subtle cues others might have missed—and to offer simple solutions based on his own personal experiences. “One of the first things I noticed when watching videos of Stephen was that he would sometimes strain his eyes to the left and the right,” Pete recalls. “When he was doing that, I could see reflections or indications that somebody was walking behind him. And I began to realize that he wanted to see what was going on or maybe communicate with whoever was there. So on one of my first visits with him, I gave him one of those little mirrors that people have in their cubicles, and I stuck it on the corner of his monitor, and that changed everything for him. If you see him now, he always has that—and backups in case they break.”

The team’s primary objective was to increase the ease and speed of Hawking’s interactions with his computer by updating the user interface to be simpler and more intuitive. So they designed a more contextual and predictive interface that offers up the most likely choices for Hawking to make at any given moment, including next word prediction for speaking or writing. The redesigned interface reduces the number of steps Hawking needs to take to complete various tasks—including communicating—using his computer, thereby increasing his speed and efficiency.

On the difference his work has made to Stephen, Pete says “I certainly hope and believe it has improved his quality of life. One thing that’s common to many people with disabilities is that we don’t adapt very easily from technologies we’ve gotten used to—and come to depend on—to newer technologies, even if they’re better in many ways. So Stephen didn’t have to use his new system—all of his old software is still there. And for a long while, he’d continue switching back and forth between the two. But he now uses the newer software as his primary system most of the time, and I think that’s our strongest signal that he’s really come to value it.”

But the project’s value doesn’t end with Stephen Hawking. “We’ve open-sourced the software we created and given it to the world,” Pete explains. “So it’s out there and available for anybody to use and to modify for their specific needs. This is something that we did purely to help people with disabilities.”

The project also led to another unanticipated benefit. It’s given Pete an unprecedented opportunity to correct misperceptions about another one of his distinguishing characteristics—dyslexia. “Being dyslexic is one of the most powerful things I have going for me,” says Pete. “A lot of people see it as a problem; I don’t. I see it as something that helps me in a lot of ways to get the results that I get. It’s a difference in thinking, a difference in the way you process thought or put your ideas together. So I want to change the way people view dyslexia. I had to overcome a lot of stigma and self-doubt, and a lot of those things pushed me into the career path that I’m in. But I think the way that my brain works allows me to process ideas in a different way than the average person does. And so that helps me in labs tremendously. I can come at an idea or project from angles far and wide and be able to see it in a way that no one else has really thought about. And I know dyslexia has helped me to do that.”

Pete appreciates that his work with Stephen Hawking has given him a platform from which to advocate for people with disabilities—and he’s determined to make the most of it. “I’ve worked with UNESCO on disability-related initiatives. I’m on the board of directors for QUAD Inc., which helps people with disabilities live independently. I work with the National Center on Learning Disabilities, the Christopher Reeve foundation, and many others. And the reason I’m in the room is because I worked with Stephen Hawking.”

“The project with Stephen Hawking has given me opportunities to branch out and talk about dyslexia and other hidden learning disabilities. The fact that I’m dyslexic and I helped change the life of one of the smartest, most gifted, and influential people of our time has given me credibility to talk about these issues and change perceptions. And once you change the perception, you change the game.”

Changing the game is something Pete has done many times in his career at Intel—working on devices like the Intel Reader and Intel Health Guide to some very exciting Lab research projects that will be coming out in the near future. “I’ve been fortunate to be able to work on projects that have been both challenging and meaningful,” says Pete. “Intel has given me many opportunities to use my talents to make a real impact—both within the company and far beyond.”

Watch Pete Denman discuss his amazing opportunities and accomplishments in the new movie Roadtrip Nation: Being You, which premiered on Public Television stations throughout the US on May 8, 2016.

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7CEO Brian Krzanich Talks about the Future of Intelhttp://blogs.intel.com/jobs/2016/06/21/ceo-brian-krzanich-talks-future-intel/About Us5gbrian krzanichcloudfpgaIntelmemorymoores lawstrategyvirtuous cycle of growthJobs @ IntelTue, 21 Jun 2016 07:05:19 PDThttp://blogs.intel.com/jobs/?p=3376CEO Brian Krzanich recently addressed Intel employees to present how Intel has positioned itself to take advantage of emerging technologies and stay at the forefront of innovation in today’s tech world.

In May I shared how Intel is making broad changes to accelerate our transformation by aligning every segment of our business – our people, our places and our projects – to our strategy.

Our strategy itself is about transforming Intel from a PC company to a company that powers the cloud and billions of smart, connected computing devices. We head into that future with tremendous assets and advantages: our spirit of innovation, our technology and manufacturing leadership, and the trust of our customers. But what does that future look like? I want to outline how I see the future unfolding and how Intel will continue to lead and win as we power the next generation of technologies.

There are five core beliefs that I hold to be undeniably true for the future.

The cloud is the most important trend shaping the future of the smart, connected world – and thus Intel’s future.

The many “things” that make up the PC Client business and the Internet of Things are made much more valuable by their connection to the cloud.

Memory and programmable solutions such as FPGAs will deliver entirely new classes of products for the data center and the Internet of Things.

5G will become the key technology for access to the cloud and as we move toward an always-connected world.

Moore’s Law will continue to progress and Intel will continue to lead in delivering its true economic impact.

Our strategy is based on these premises, and the unique assets that only Intel brings to them. There is a clear virtuous cycle here – the cloud and data center, the Internet of Things, memory and FPGAs are all bound together by connectivity and enhanced by the economics of Moore’s Law.

This virtuous cycle fuels our business, and we are aligning every segment of our business to it. Let me lay out how the parts of our strategy interact together and reinforce our growth.

First is the cloud and data center. Virtualization and software are increasingly defining infrastructure in the cloud and data center, which plays to our strengths – we will drive more and more of the footprint of the data center to Intel architecture. However, these trends are only part of how we can drive the growth and full potential we have as a company. There is much more value to unlock from the cloud and data center, and analytics is the key to that. We’ll accelerate the power and value of analytics by continuing to innovate in high-performance computing, big data and machine learning capabilities.

Second is the many variations of connected things. The term “Internet of Things” tends to be ambiguous, so it’s important to define it and then identify what segments Intel will drive. “Things” range from PCs to what we now call the Internet of Things. The Internet of Things encompasses all smart devices – every device, sensor, console and any other client device – that are connected to the cloud. The key phrase here is “connected to the cloud.” It means that everything that a “thing” does can be captured as a piece of data, measured real-time, and is accessible from anywhere. And the biggest opportunity in the Internet of Things is that it encompasses just about everything in our lives today – it’s ubiquitous. For most areas of industry and retail – from our shoes and clothes to our homes and cars – the Internet of Things is transforming everything and every experience. At Intel, we will focus on autonomous vehicles, industrial and retail as our primary growth drivers of the Internet of Things. Similarly, we view our core Client business of PCs and mobile as among the many variations of connected things, which is driving our strategy of differentiation and segmentation in the Internet of Things business.

Third is memory and programmable solutions. Rack Scale Architecture, 3D XPoint™ memory, FPGAs and silicon photonics are just a few examples of technologies that have been in development for several years at Intel and that we will bring to production soon. Over the next few years, we will bring many more breakthrough innovations and products to the cloud and data center infrastructure – revolutionizing the performance and architecture of the data center. Even more exciting, each of these technologies has a long roadmap that will allow for growth for years to come.

Fourth is connectivity. Threading all of this virtuous cycle together is connectivity – the fact that providing computing power to a device and connecting it to the cloud makes it more valuable. A great example is an autonomous vehicle. It must have connectivity to the cloud, and the cloud must have machine learning capabilities to constantly be guided by the most up-to-date algorithms and data sets that allow the vehicle to operate safely. In this way, connectivity is fundamental to every one of the cloud-to-thing segments we will drive. As the world moves to 5G, Intel will lead because of our technological strength to deliver end-to-end 5G systems, from modems to base stations to all the various forms of connectivity that exist today and will exist tomorrow.

Fifth is Moore’s Law. Moore’s Law is fundamentally a law of economics, and Intel will confidently continue to harness its value. The law says that we can shrink transistor dimensions by roughly 50% at a roughly fixed cost, thus driving twice the transistors for the same cost (or the same number of transistors for half the cost). This concept has fueled the technology revolution all of us have lived through. Intel’s leadership in Moore’s Law has driven the products delivering massive computing power growth and increasingly better economics and pricing. In my 34 years in the semiconductor industry, I have witnessed the advertised death of Moore’s Law no less than four times. As we progress from 14 nanometer technology to 10 nanometer and plan for 7 nanometer and 5 nanometer and even beyond, our plans are proof that Moore’s Law is alive and well. Intel’s industry leadership of Moore’s Law remains intact, and you will see continued investment in capacity and R&D to ensure so.

Putting it all together, Intel is uniquely positioned to power the cloud and drive the increasingly smart, connected world. We see tremendous opportunity in the growth of this virtuous cycle – the cloud and data center, the Internet of Things, memory, and FPGAs all bound together by connectivity and enhanced by the economics of Moore’s Law – which will provide a strong and dynamic future for Intel.

We are in a time when technology is valued not just for the devices it produces, but for the experiences it makes possible. Intel will lead in this new era by remaining true to our history as inventors and makers, as a global leader in manufacturing, as world class innovators. We will also lead by becoming a company with a broader focus, and with sharper execution. In doing so, we will create lasting value for our customers, partners and shareholders, and achieve our mission to lead in a smart, connected world.

It is an incredibly exciting time for Intel as we accelerate our strategy, and our impact. The work we do at Intel today will change this company, our industry and the world.

In line with Intel’s new strategy as laid out by BK, we expect to see major growth in our areas of focus, including data centers, server development, IoT devices, 5G connectivity, new memory solutions, and of course, computing power and efficiency. We are excited about how these new developments will shape our continued growth now, and into the future.

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15 Things Intel Recruiters Want You to Knowhttp://blogs.intel.com/jobs/2016/06/09/3344/Recruiter Insightsnetworking tipsrecruiter tipsresume tipsJobs @ IntelTue, 23 Aug 2016 11:04:02 PDThttp://blogs.intel.com/jobs/?p=3344We asked our recruiters: If you could tell job candidates just one thing to help them in their job search, what would it be? Here is what they had to say:

Research, research, research

Choosing a company to bet your career on should not be a decision you take lightly. Do as much research as possible on any potential company before investing your time and resources on an application for a position with that company. Interviewing with a company that does not fit your culture is a waste of time for everyone involved. Even if you do get the job, if you find yourself unhappy and begin searching for another opportunity within a year of accepting the role, you may be left both mentally and financially drained.

One great way to research a company is to head to its Glassdoor profile. Most companies have a career website that can provide insight into their company culture. You can also search your LinkedIn contacts for connections to someone at that company to whom you can ask questions.

Network your way into a career opportunity

Employee referral is one of the most effective paths into a company. Always work on your networking skills with others in your industry. When you seek out a position at a company, check your contacts or LinkedIn connections for someone who is employed by that company and ask if they’d be willing to refer you to an open position. Most companies have programs that provide incentives for employees that refer their contacts. As one of our recruiters who scours hundreds of applicants a day notes, “I’ll always look at a resume that comes from a current employee, because I see it as coming from a trusted source.”

Do your homework before your interview
So your resume looks great and you were able to get the interview! Great job. Now it is time to do your homework. Be sure to google news about the company and the business group you are interviewing for. Knowledge about the group or position will give you an edge in your interview. You’ll get bonus points if you can articulate how your experience fits in with what the company is trying to do. On the other hand, if you don’t know much about the business going into your interview, it will be harder for you to sell why you would be a great fit. An IoT recruiter at Intel adds, “I have never heard a hiring manager say the candidate was too prepared.”

Details matter

Too often, candidates address a recruiter by the wrong name or reference the wrong company in a cover letter. We understand that mistakes happen. And while we don’t want to miss out on great talent due to a simple mistake, our recruiters are trying to assess a candidate’s seriousness in applying to a role from hundreds of other applicants. One recruiter notes, “If we are going to work hard to find you a position at the company, we want to know that you are putting in equal effort.”

Don’t apply to everything

Recruiters can see all the positions you’ve applied to for their company. When they see that you’ve applied to 40 not-so-similar positions, it gives the impression that no thought was given to whether or not you are a good fit for those positions. One recruiter puts it best, “Applying to 5 jobs you are truly qualified for will always yield better results than applying to 30 jobs you are marginally qualified to do. There is too much competition in the market for an ‘apply for everything’ strategy to work.”

Having said that, if you are truly qualified for the position, or several of them, it is OK to apply in volume. Here are some guidelines to understand if you meet the minimum requirements for a particular position:

Good: The position requires a 4 year degree in Engineering and you have a Chemical Engineering degree.

Good enough: The position requires a 4 year degree in “Computer Science, Information Technology, or related discipline” and you have a Business Administration degree with an Information Systems option.

Also applicable – the Position requires a degree in electronics or equivalent experience and you don’t have a formal degree, but have 10 years of experience as a journeyman electrician. Ensure you can speak to how your experience equates to or supersedes any institutional programs.

Bad: The position requires a 4 year degree in “Finance, Economics, Accounting, or related discipline” and you have a degree in Political Science with a minor in Philosophy with no applicable work experience to mitigate the lack of requested degree.

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11Malaysian Intel Employees Turn Daily Commute into Lifetime Experience – My Best Lifehttp://blogs.intel.com/jobs/2016/04/25/malaysian-intel-employees-turn-daily-commute-lifetime-experience-best-life/Around the GlobeJust For FunLife At IntelbenefitscommuteemployeeMalaysiaWork/LifeJobs @ IntelTue, 26 Apr 2016 08:40:18 PDThttp://blogs.intel.com/jobs/?p=3314

Last summer, a group of Intel employees in Penang, Malaysia created the Intel Bike2Work Group Ride to make their morning commute into an incredible shared experience. Lead by Intel Platform Application Engineering Manager Oh Haw Kuang, the group gathers before sunrise once every month, and sets out together to navigate the crowded streets of Penang, using carefully plotted routes designed to make for a pleasant and safe commute that is both good for health and the environment. The 15 kilometer path takes the group along the scenic Coastal Highway, allowing them to share in gorgeous views and breathtaking sunrises on their way into the office for the day.

“I always have this satisfaction when riding by the cars which are stuck in bumper-to-bumper jams. I also enjoy the breathtaking view of sunrise and just can’t help to remind myself that Penang is indeed a paradise.” Comments Haw, summing up the fun and beauty of the experience.

Any Intel employee working in Penang is welcome to join the Bike2Work monthly group ride as a safe way to ease into more regular bicycle commuting. Some of the members have even used the routes and lessons learned in the group ride to begin commuting in this way on an everyday basis. Members have offered these tips to anyone looking to join in on the ride:

“We always try to ride in a single file, especially when we are on busy roads. Always remember: safety in numbers” –Oh Haw Kuang – Platform Application Engineering Manager, IOTG

“Make sure your bike is in full working order, including good lights (for riding in the early morning), etc. In your free time, try out the route. Ride the full length of the planned route to see if you can handle it. If possible, try it during the time you had planned to commute because traffic conditions change depending on the time.” – KC Loong, Network Design Analyst, Global Logistics Operations

“Just come try it! It’s a great way to make new friends and it’s fun. Safety is always our first priority. We take care of one another during the ride. Just remember to bring your sense of humor and sunblock.” – Jenny Lau Chao Min – Supply Demand Analyst, New Business Materials Planning

Groups like Bike2Work showcase how Intel employees are connecting with each other outside the boundaries of the office, while also demonstrating the ingenuity we have for turning what some might see as wasted time into an amazing experience. What kind of groups would you organize to make your work day more exciting?

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1Intel for Working Familieshttp://blogs.intel.com/jobs/2016/04/19/intel-working-families/About UsDiversity and InclusionLife At InteldiversityIntelWorking MotherJobs @ IntelTue, 26 Apr 2016 08:43:48 PDThttp://blogs.intel.com/jobs/?p=3302In 2015, Working Mother Magazine named Intel to its 30th list of the 100 best companies for the ninth time consecutively. The list honors companies that support working families. Since its creation in 1986, Working Mother’s list has set the standard for work/life practices in the United States. Thousands of companies answer Working Mother’s more than 450 question survey and are evaluated on their policies pertaining to leave policies, workforce representation, benefits, child care, advancement programs, flexibility policies and more.

In the past year, Intel showed its commitment to achieving a work environment that fully supports and encourages working mothers and fathers pursuing their careers in the high tech industry. In addition to an unprecedented $300 million commitment to increase diversity and inclusion in the tech industry announced by CEO Brian Krzanich at the 2015 Consumer Electronics Show, Intel has implemented distinctive policies to ensure that our employees are given the resources and flexibility they need to balance their work with their family lives. To highlight the practices that earned Intel its place on the Best 100 list, we asked some of our employees to share a little about what Intel is doing to meet their families’ needs.

“I have worked at Intel for 20 year in various roles and organizations. I have a daughter that is 17 years old with Down syndrome and Congenital Heart Disease. She is an amazing and beautiful individual that I learn from every day. As you can imagine, she requires more doctor’s appointments, therapy, and special attention than a typical child. To support her health needs, I have to have a flexible schedule and the ability to work from home. I feel very fortunate that Intel is one of the industry’s trail blazers in supporting individuals and their family members with special needs.

It’s not one thing that makes Intel a great company to work for, but the many small things that add up. I feel that Intel creates an environment that truly cares about my balance between work and home life.”

Anna Ballard, California Government Affairs Manager

“When my son arrived seven weeks early, it was more important than ever to have that time after he came. After I got back to work, Intel announced a new bonding leave of eight weeks of full pay, which is fantastic. Being a new parent is challenging, and so I’m really looking forward to taking advantage of that later this year.”

Karlin Keller, Sr. Technical Assistant to our SVP of HR

“As a 30-something, I’m just now beginning to think about what my family plan might look like. [Intel’s fertility and adoption] benefits remove a lot of the stress that myself and many of my colleagues—both men and women—have around creating our families. These are personal, complex choices, and for Intel to better enable us to make those choices at any time in our lives, well, that makes all the difference to me.”

Supporting the People who Support Us

With one of the industry’s most progressive benefits packages, Intel continues to strive to give our working mothers and fathers the support they need to balance their work with the needs of their families. Regardless of your family configuration, Intel is committed to making your work work for you.

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2Intel Employees Enable Digital Classrooms in Rwandahttp://blogs.intel.com/jobs/2016/04/12/draft-intel-creates-digital-classrooms-rwanda/Around the GlobeIntel in the CommunityLife At IntelDigital ClassroomeducationiescIntelIntel Education Service CorpRwandavolunteervolunteeringJobs @ IntelTue, 12 Apr 2016 11:24:58 PDThttp://blogs.intel.com/jobs/?p=3242

On October 5, 2015, Intel Education Service Corps (IESC) sent a group of Intel employee volunteers to a school in Kigali, the capital of Rwanda, on a mission to change the lives of students and teachers using education and Intel technology. Together with the teachers of Kicukiro General School (GS Kicukiro), our team was able to create a true digital classroom, giving the students of the school an educational advantage that cannot be understated.

The IESC team was chosen for their technical and educational skills as well as their cross-cultural fluency and sense of adventure. These compassionate individuals came together from diverse backgrounds to make our goal of improving the quality of education through technology into a reality. Project Manager Michael Hall led the team, consisting of two Teacher Trainers, two Technical leads, and a Social Media Journalist. Each brought their own energy and passion to the project, which they approached with careful planning and understanding that their goal was not just to give computers to the school, but to create a self-sustaining program that could continue functioning for years to come.

The Need:

When our team arrived in Rwanda, they were struck by the exceptional beauty of the country and the cleanliness of Kigali. However, once they got to GS Kicukiro, they were able to see the challenge that lay before them. The city’s infrastructure could not continually supply power to the school, leaving the classrooms to make due with natural lighting from makeshift skylights, and limiting their ability to use technology in any practical way. Many of the older teachers had never interacted with a computer before, and would have to be taught things as fundamental as how to use a mouse and keyboard. However, the realities of the classroom also showed the team the importance of their mission. Getting even basic school supplies like text books is a challenge in Rwanda, and the teachers must painstakingly copy their lessons from a single textbook onto a chalkboard to share the material with the students. The students, in turn, copy all of the information by hand in order to have reference material to study. The benefits our team could give these classrooms by integrating practical technology into their daily lessons was apparent.

The Project:

The team’s first task on arriving at GS Kicukiro was to hear first-hand from the Rwandan teachers exactly what their daily needs entailed. With an understanding of the community they sought to aid, the IESC team launched a rigorous plan to not only provide practical and useful technology to the school, but to train the teachers to use and maintain the systems. They presented the school with fifty specially prepared laptop computers, featuring rugged reinforcement to improve longevity, long lasting batteries and energy efficient hardware to ensure they could be used all day without recharging, and a suite of software designed by Intel Education Software to give the teachers all the tools they needed to present the lessons they wanted to teach. To ensure these machines continued to be useful long after the team left Rwanda, they created and trained the school’s first IT department to manage the upkeep of the computers over time. They empowered a system that would allow the benefits of their mission to take root and to propagate to other areas, creating lasting changes for the community.

Making a Difference

The teachers quickly saw how the computers could help them spend less time on bookkeeping and more time teaching. Jose, one of the Intel lead teacher trainers, remarked, “They really liked how fast the quiz grading process was. They immediately saw the value.”

But the real payoff for the Intel volunteers was seeing the computers brought into the classroom for the first time. “It was the most rewarding experience… seeing the kids’ faces light up when the computers were brought into the classroom and they were shown lessons with video for the first time. You could really see them become engaged,” remarked Project Manager Michael Hall when asked about the impact the team had on the school. After seeing what the teachers could do with the technology they had been given, it became apparent that something special had been brought to GS Kicukiro. Using the library of books installed on the machines meant teachers no longer had to spend tedious hours copying material onto the chalkboard. Lessons that might have taken as much as five hours could be done in thirty minutes, allowing the teachers to spend more time interacting with the students and covering a greater amount of material. The teachers in Rwanda enthusiastically embraced both the technology and the Intel volunteers who brought it to them. When the time came for our team to return home, The Rwandan teachers had this to say about the program, “The Intel team was here as part of their job, but they did more than that. They were up late at night and away from their families. They engaged with the teachers & the kids. It was much more than a job.”

To find out more about the opportunities available to Intel Employees through the Intel Education Service Corps, visit http://intel.ly/iesc.

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2I am (a Senior Technical) Woman. Hear me ROAR.http://blogs.intel.com/jobs/2016/04/06/i-am-a-senior-technical-woman-hear-me-roar/About UsDiversity and InclusionLife At Inteldiversitydiversity & inclusioninclusionROARtechnical womenwomen at intelPaul TawadrousWed, 06 Apr 2016 07:53:20 PDThttp://blogs.intel.com/jobs/?p=3274By 2014, Intel realized it had a significant challenge on its hands. Women employees—especially senior technical women—were showing signs of frustration regarding their careers with the company. Retaining these talented women was proving more difficult than expected, and surveys confirmed that they were more likely than their male counterparts to feel isolated and “stuck” in terms of career progression.

So the company did the same thing it does when it encounters difficult technological challenges. It carefully studied the problem, identified solutions, and methodically began to implement them. One of the programs it launched in response was ROAR.

First piloted in September 2014, ROAR (which stands for Rapid Orientation for Accelerated Results) is a multi-day immersion event for newly hired senior technical women. The event team is comprised of employees who volunteer from across all business groups—mentors who are passionate about creating a culture of inclusion at Intel.

Vernetta Dorsey

Each ROAR event includes formal presentations—including executive speeches, panels, and business group and product overviews—as well as more relaxed exchanges, like roundtable sessions, breakout groups, and so-called “Happy Hours.” At these casual get-togethers, ROAR alumni are invited to meet and mingle with current participants, so they can get to know each other and share information, words of advice, and useful contacts. “The networking alone was really valuable,” says ROAR alum Vernetta Dorsey. Vernetta, who attended ROAR in January 2015, credits the program with helping her to hit the ground running when she first joined Intel. “You meet so many people from all across the company, and they give you great insights into a lot of the insider stuff it might take months or years to learn. How to get different things done, who to call for what—even the language, with all the acronyms particular to Intel.”

ROAR participant Banafsheh Ziaei, who attended in November 2015, adds to Vernetta’s praise for the program. “The wealth of knowledge I gained and the relationships I made there—it might have taken three to five years to get all that on my own. So ROAR was just an amazing crash course.” On what it’s like to join a large organization like Intel, Banafsheh says “It can be quite intimidating. There’s so much you don’t know—about the structure, the culture, the language. So even coming in at a more senior level, you’re worried about whether you can project the same confidence and credibility as long-time Intelers. That’s where ROAR really helps. It gives you the knowledge and support you need to be confident in your expertise, even among a very experienced population.”

What Happens at ROAR…

Banafsheh Ziaei

One of ROAR’s aims was to create a comfortable environment where women can be candid about the specific challenges they face and openly discuss different ways to meet and overcome these challenges. “We like to say that ‘Vegas Rules’ apply at ROAR,” says Holly Sawyer, a yield engineer who’s been with Intel for 11 years and plays a key role in planning and organizing ROAR events. “That atmosphere of trust is critical to encouraging the frank and open dialogue that helps participants connect with each other, feel supported, and discover opportunities they may not have seen or recognized before.”

And how has the program fared so far? “The feedback we’ve received has been incredibly positive,” says Holly. “We survey all our participants, and we’re very receptive to adapting the program based on the feedback we get. We’re really encouraged to find that women who’ve participated in ROAR report feeling less isolated and more optimistic about their careers at Intel.” Vernetta and Banafsheh both strongly endorse that sentiment. “ROAR really lived up to its name,” says Vernetta. “It delivered accelerated results by providing a quick but comprehensive overview of the company, deep dives into essential topics, and a lot of really important contacts. I’ve been able to reach out to a bunch of the folks I met there—mentors in different groups—and they’re always happy to follow up with me.”

“I really consider the days I spent at ROAR to be a highlight of my career so far at Intel,” says Banafsheh. “ROAR opened my eyes to new career paths. The stories the panelists shared—personal stories of how they ended up in very different places from where they started—were really inspiring. It’s great to see that there are always new opportunities here, and that it’s okay to pursue them—that people here are very supportive of changes in direction.”

Keep on ROARing

“By the end of our ROAR events, most participants are feeling a ‘summer camp high’—the exhilaration you get when you’ve just been through an inspiring and memorable experience,” says Holly. “We encourage participants to keep that inspiration going by staying in touch, both formally and informally, with the people they’ve met.” So after every ROAR event, participants are grouped into geography-based mentoring cohorts, with a senior technical leader assigned to each. These cohorts then continue to meet on a regular basis to continue building on the relationships, knowledge, and support they gained at ROAR.

“I keep in touch with many of the friends I made at ROAR,” says Vernetta. “I meet up with some of them once a month, and I have ‘virtual coffees’ with some others who aren’t local.” And is there anything she’d recommend to improve on ROAR? “I’d just try to reach even more women—the earlier in their careers at Intel, the better” says Vernetta, who reports that her experience with ROAR has inspired her to take a more active role in mentoring others at Intel and in the industry. “Since I attended ROAR, I’ve participated in a few of the Happy Hours so I can get to know and offer guidance to some of our newer hires.” She’s also active in many Intel Employee Resource Groups and tech industry organizations.

Banafsheh has also committed to paying forward the support she received at ROAR. “During one of the sessions I was a part of, a Senior Fellow was giving a presentation on silicon design. For non-specialists, it was very advanced, assuming a much higher level of knowledge of silicon design concepts than many of the people there had. So I approached the organizers about creating a presentation on the basics of silicon design—including the history, evolution, bottlenecks, limitations, and so forth—and that discussion evolved into a presentation I now give titled ‘Silicon Chip Design 101.’” Banafsheh also shares Vernetta’s hopes to expand ROAR’s reach. “More and more women should be able to benefit from the program, the follow-up sessions, the network—which have all been so incredibly valuable to me and others. It’s just really priceless.”

“The idea behind Freelance Nation had been bubbling up in the Talent Organization for a while,” says Kalani Ching, who helped launch the program in 2014. The innovative staffing solution was Intel’s response to the growing desire—from both employees and business groups—for more adaptable work arrangements. “A lot of employees wanted to focus more on the work they loved, and business groups needed an easier way to find employees with specialized skills to work on specific projects.”

So in the spring of 2014, Kalani, along with a small team from the Intel Talent Organization, sought and received funding for a pilot program—and Freelance Nation was born. The program started out with around 60 employees, and projects typically lasted between six and eight weeks. Today Freelance Nation continues to thrive and grow, as business groups from all across the company discover and utilize the unique resources it offers. The program continues to hire people who possess high-demand skillsets and a freelancer mindset.

Freedom and adaptability are at the core of Freelance Nation. Employees are free to choose which projects they want to pursue and then, if they’re selected, negotiate the terms of the project—everything from responsibilities and deliverables to work schedule and project duration. Employees are free to take on multiple simultaneous projects and—in consultation with their client groups—set the schedule that works best for them at any given time. Compensation is adjusted to reflect the amount of time worked (for example, a full-time schedule earns 100% compensation, a 75% schedule earns 75% compensation, etc.).

Championing Exceptional Talent

Talent (and Fencing) Champion Vikki Mueller Espinosa

Each Freelancer is assigned a Talent Champion—a seasoned people manager with extensive experience and proven success in career coaching and employee development. Talent Champions counsel their assigned Freelancers, facilitate project-matching, and check in from time to time with their Freelancers and customers to ensure that both parties are happy with the work and projects are running smoothly. One of the program’s Talent Champions, Vikki Mueller Espinosa—who works a flexible schedule herself—describes her light-touch approach. “It’s really up to the Freelancers themselves to figure out and go after the work they want to do. I encourage them to narrow their list of specialties to the things they really love. You know, one person’s trash is another person’s treasure. If you focus on the things you really love to do, there’s almost always someone else who enjoys and wants to do the things you don’t.” She also encourages Freelancers to think and work independently, like entrepreneurs. “I’m a bit like a Hollywood agent—I help match them up with engaging work that makes the most of their potential and helps them grow professionally. After that, I tell them ‘If it makes sense for Intel and for your career, do it.’ They don’t need to ask for my permission.”

Practicing the freedom and independence she preaches, Vikki negotiated a custom schedule for herself that allows her to pursue her passion for wheelchair fencing. She took up the sport in 2014, after injuring her leg playing soccer in 2009. Now the reigning national champion in women’s wheelchair sabre fencing, she takes 12 weeks off during the year to compete all over the world. She’s working hard to qualify for a spot on the 2016 US Paralympic Fencing Team.

Sarah Moyle Goes Free-Style

Freelancer and Whiteboard Illustrator Sarah Moyle

Prior to joining Freelance Nation, Sarah Moyle had worked in Human Resources for four years. She heard about it from a mentor who was familiar with the program and enthusiastically recommended it. “I was really yearning for more creative work,” says Sarah. “And I had gotten into doing some explanatory whiteboard videos and graphic facilitation to help people grasp ideas and processes. So I saw Freelance Nation as a way to continue focusing on that and building up those skills.”

As a new mom, Sarah especially appreciates the flexibility Freelance Nation offers. “It’s great to be in control of my own schedule—and it’s been a real lifesaver at times. Like when my son’s six-month vaccinations coincided with his first tooth. It was a Monday morning, and—as you can guess—he was not a happy camper. But I was able to stay with him and give him the extra attention he needed that day. Then I just finished up my work later that night.”

Sarah also values the many development opportunities Freelance Nation provides. “We’re often able to partner with other Freelancers who have different skills or levels of expertise, and we’re encouraged to learn from them. So if there’s a particular set of skills I want to grow or gain, I can choose to work on projects with people I want to learn from.”

And if Sarah ever wondered whether working as a Freelancer would hold back her career growth in any way, she certainly doesn’t now. “Oh, definitely not. I’m constantly learning new skills and getting exposure to different parts of the company—more than I ever would otherwise. And the work I do makes a real difference here.” In fact, Sarah recently helped a client business group clinch a big contract with an important customer. “I received an urgent call asking if I could fly down to assist in a critical presentation. They said they could really benefit from having a graphic recorder there, so I quickly rearranged my schedule and was on my way. At the end of the meeting, the customers were all smiles—and I later heard that my visualizations played a key role in making a positive impression on our customer, positioning us to secure the contract. I couldn’t have been more proud.”

Maria Mihalko Finds Free-dom

Freelancer and Visual Storyteller Maria Mihalko

Maria took a similar route to Freelance Nation—but with one bundle-of-joy-sized exception. “I had been working in HR at Intel for nine years, but I was actually on maternity leave when I heard about, applied for, and was accepted into Freelance Nation,” says Maria. “My current job had been gradually shifting away from the things I liked to do most, so I was open to a change. When my maternity leave ended, I started up with Freelance Nation—and I haven’t looked back since.”

Like Sarah, Maria has found a lot to like as a new mom at Freelance Nation. “It’s an incredible relief to have a flexible schedule and such a supportive team,” says Maria. “Babies—especially those who are exposed to a lot of other kids in daycare—tend to get a lot of colds and other viruses in their first year or two, and my daughter was no exception. Knowing that I could go and pick her up right away whenever I got that midday call—that’s very reassuring. You just need to communicate with your client and let them know what’s going on. But as long as you do that, and arrange your schedule so you can get your work done, no one really bats an eye.”

Asked about her most rewarding projects with Freelance Nation, Maria doesn’t hesitate. “Getting the opportunity to find a place at Intel that’s such a great fit for me has been incredible. So I’m excited when I get the chance to help others here do the same thing,” says Maria. “One of my favorite projects has been working with Blue Hire—which helps place current Intel employees in new positions within the company. It’s a great feeling when you can help people at Intel find work here that they really enjoy—work that really energizes them. That’s exactly what I’ve been able to do at Freelance Nation.”

We’re thrilled to celebrate this Equal Pay Day, April 12, 2016, by noting that Intel has achieved 100% gender pay parity in our US workforce. “This is a great milestone in our ongoing drive to become a fully equitable and inclusive workplace—and one that we’re very proud of,” says Danielle Brown, Vice President, Human Resources and Chief Diversity & Inclusion Officer at Intel.

Intel has long been committed to paying our employees fairly and equitably at all levels of the organization. We conduct an annual, comprehensive audit of pay in the US to analyze our employees’ pay by gender and ethnicity. In 2015 we conducted a further compensation analysis examining gender pay parity for US employees across job types and levels, which showed a net result of 100% pay parity—news we first shared earlier this year in our 2015 Diversity & Inclusion Annual Report.

]]><p>We’re thrilled to celebrate this Equal Pay Day, April 12, 2016, by noting that Intel has achieved 100% gender pay parity in our US workforce. “This is a great milestone in our ongoing drive to become a fully equitable and &#8230; <a href="http://blogs.intel.com/jobs/2016/02/29/gender-pay-parity-at-intel-at-100/">Read&#160;more&#160;<span class="meta-nav">&#62;</span></a></p>
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1Intel Wins 2015 APAC Candidate Experience Awardhttp://blogs.intel.com/jobs/2016/02/25/intel-wins-2015-apac-candidate-experience-award/Around the GlobeIntel in the NewsLife At Intelcandidate experiencetalent boardRaj SuriThu, 25 Feb 2016 08:53:09 PSThttp://blogs.intel.com/jobs/?p=3196Intel has just been recognized as a 2015 APAC Candidate Experience Award winner. The Candidate Experience Awards are presented by Talent Board and are based on detailed survey responses of a random selection of candidates from across the Greater Asia Region (GAR) in 2014-2015. This year, 11 winners were selected among 22 companies who took part—with a total of nearly 3,000 candidate responses.

This award comes on the heels of Intel receiving this same honor in the EMEA region earlier this year.

The Awards Reception followed a Symposium which included presentations and panel discussions that covered a variety of candidate experience-related topics.

When Rodney Williams got the call from the Intel Capital Diversity Fund last spring, he had just begun to hear from a wave of funds looking to invest in his promising startup, LISNR. Ultimately, the CEO and his team decided to partner with a group of investors led by Intel Capital. They felt that Intel was in the best position to understand and support the long-term possibilities of the company’s technologies, including SmartTones, a new communication protocol that sends data and connects devices using inaudible sound waves.

New business connections

While other investors were interested in the technology’s ability to generate immediate revenue with narrow applications, the Diversity Fund backed LISNR’s plans to invest the time and effort necessary to develop a robust platform with a broad range of applications. “The Fund’s investment allowed us to focus on things like improving the speed and efficiency of our technology and attracting top leadership and talent to the company,” said Williams.

The Diversity Fund also introduced Williams and LISNR, through events like the Intel Capital Global Summit, to new business connections and opportunities that the Cincinnati-based company might have otherwisemissed out on. “One of the advantages of the Diversity Fund is that it looks for talent and opportunities beyond the usual locations and networks,” said Williams. “And if that means worthy startups in different parts of the country that were previously overlooked are now getting noticed, then that’s a great thing for everyone.”

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1To Survive and Thrive, We All Must GROWhttp://blogs.intel.com/jobs/2016/02/08/to-survive-and-thrive-we-all-must-grow/About UsDiversity and InclusionLife At Intelcultural transformationculturediversitydiversity & inclusiongrowinclusionJobs @ IntelThu, 11 Feb 2016 12:17:27 PSThttp://blogs.intel.com/jobs/?p=3153This post is authored by Deb Bubb—Vice President of Human Resources and Director of Global Leadership & Learning at Intel Corporation.

Like most of you, I’ve watched many companies with iconic brands struggle to evolve. Despite their impressive histories and market-making products, these companies have surrendered their positions to disruptive challengers, now subject to merciless business case analysis. Put simply, great companies either evolve or die.

So how does a technology giant like Intel keep evolving? Let’s face it: changes in the market aren’t slowing down and technology challenges aren’t getting easier to solve. To continue driving innovation that makes amazing experiences possible, Intel can’t afford to be complacent about our need to evolve. For us, it means new markets, new customers, and new technology challenges. It means opening up to new talent, different approaches and diverse perspectives. It means living up to our company value of embracing change and challenging the status quo.

And that’s where GROW comes in.

GROW is a new company-wide initiative for employees at Intel—and everywhere—to create an environment where everyone can do their best work. Our Global Leadership and Learning team designed GROW as a platform for personal, professional, and cultural growth. At its essence, GROW is about helping us grow ourselves, grow together, and grow Intel.

One of the most important ways Intel—and much of the tech industry—needs to evolve is toward a culture that wholeheartedly embraces diversity and inclusion. In fact, recent research published by the Conference Board points to the correlation between innovation and inclusiveness—that is to say, companies who are better able to learn, listen and include one another are more innovative. As reported by the San Jose Mercury News, David Rock, director of the NeuroLeadership Institute explained “that diverse [and inclusive] teams perform better than homogeneous ones on a bunch of measures—solving logical and creative problems, as well as finding errors.”

But historical programs to train employees on diversity and inclusion have had mixed results. People have had a hard time translating concepts explored in the classroom to real life situations at work. To help Intel evolve, we needed a breakthrough in our approach, just like we make breakthroughs in technology.

So we approached the problem like good engineers: we consulted with key partners and experts in neuro- social science research, (including the NeuroLeadership Institute, the Center for Workforce Excellence and the Center for Talent Innovation), and looked for insights about how to drive broad scale culture change. We landed on an approach that helped us stop admiring the problem and got us focused on developing new insights and changing our habits, together. And that’s what GROW is all about.

Before Intel—or any company—can evolve its culture in a significant way, employees must first be open to change—going from a “fixed” mindset to a “growth” mindset. Informed by the work of Stanford University professor Carol Dweck and others, we found that people and teams with a growth mindset see change as a challenge, not a threat.

Approaching your work with a growth mindset brings many benefits, allowing you to:

Focus more on solutions

Set and achieve bigger goals

Be more creative and resilient

Find feedback more helpful

Learn more from others

Perform better overall

To help us shift to a growth mindset and experience these benefits, we built GROW around simple habits and practice tools that encourage us to do less of some things and more of others. For example:

Instead of focusing just on your own perspective, ask yourself how others might think about it or take a different approach

Instead of being content with what you already know, find ways to develop and expand your skills, your networks, and your knowledge

Instead of focusing only on the output of your team, pay attention to your team’s progress. Watch how your team interacts and collaborates, and look for ways to ensure every voice is heard and everyone contributes to their full potential

To solve tomorrow’s technology challenges, Intel will continue to innovate and evolve. After all, to paraphrase Einstein, the same thinking that got us here won’t get us there. And that’s going to take everyone’s commitment to grow themselves and grow together. Through GROW, we are trying to get comfortable being uncomfortable. We are challenging ourselves to grow new skills and be more open to each other. We are trying to make Intel a place where everyone is welcome and challenged to contribute our best.

I invite all of you to GROW along with us! Take on your own GROW goals and help transform your own workplace into a more inclusive and growth-oriented environment. By adopting a growth mindset and taking action to build new skills, behaviors, and habits, you can help our industry bring about the cultural transformation we need—to make the same kinds of breakthroughs in how we relate to each other as we do every day in technology.

]]><p>This post is authored by Deb Bubb—Vice President of Human Resources and Director of Global Leadership &#38; Learning at Intel Corporation. Like most of you, I’ve watched many companies with iconic brands struggle to evolve. Despite their impressive histories and &#8230; <a href="http://blogs.intel.com/jobs/2016/02/08/to-survive-and-thrive-we-all-must-grow/">Read&#160;more&#160;<span class="meta-nav">&#62;</span></a></p>
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5Intel Honors Martin Luther King Jr.http://blogs.intel.com/jobs/2016/01/15/intel-honors-martin-luther-king-jr/Diversity and InclusionLife At IntelbenefitsdiversityholidayIntelLife at IntelMartin Luther KingMLKWork/LifeJobs @ IntelFri, 15 Jan 2016 13:30:00 PSThttp://blogs.intel.com/jobs/?p=3127This post is authored by Richard Taylor – Senior Vice President and Director of Human Resources for Intel Corporation.

The year was 1963. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. stood up in front of a crowd of a quarter million people, on an August day in Washington D.C., and uttered these famous and unforgettable words: “I have a dream.”

What Dr. King dreamed about over 50 years ago – freedom, equality, respect and dignity for ALL – is still relevant today. He inspired millions of people around the world with his dream, his tireless commitment to equality, and his call for change in our society. We honor Dr. King’s life and achievements as an influential leader who changed our world for the better, and touched the lives of so many along the way.

Therefore, starting this year, Intel will observe Martin Luther King, Jr. (MLK) Day as an additional paid holiday for U.S. employees*. Doing so recognizes the legacy that Dr. King left to us, and inspires us to carry it on and live into it.

In observing MLK Day, we reinforce our commitment to a dynamic, diverse and inclusive workplace for our employees and the communities that we serve. Equality and inclusion start with all of us – with our attitudes, our choices, our comments and the way we choose to see and interact with the world. Dr. King’s dream was of a peaceful, vibrant, diverse nation that celebrates the values of equality and respect for all.

]]><p>This post is authored by Richard Taylor &#8211; Senior Vice President and Director of Human Resources for Intel Corporation. The year was 1963. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. stood up in front of a crowd of a quarter million people, on an &#8230; <a href="http://blogs.intel.com/jobs/2016/01/15/intel-honors-martin-luther-king-jr/">Read&#160;more&#160;<span class="meta-nav">&#62;</span></a></p>
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4Join Us to Hack Harassmenthttp://blogs.intel.com/jobs/2016/01/05/join-us-to-hack-harassment/Diversity and InclusionIntel in the CommunityIntel in the NewsLife At Inteldiversityhack harassmentinclusionIntellady gagaonline harassmentrecodevox mediaDanielle BrownThu, 07 Jan 2016 16:06:58 PSThttp://blogs.intel.com/jobs/?p=3090Today, Intel, Vox Media, Re/code and Lady Gaga’s Born This Way Foundation came together and asked for help. We invited the technology industry and those who care about inclusion and fighting online harassment to join us in a new, collaborative, and industry-wide initiative: Hack Harassment.

Hack Harassment is first and foremost an invitation. It’s an invitation to co-create a process and a set of solutions to help reduce online harassment and promote safer, more inclusive online experiences for all.

Intel is a global leader in designing and building the essential technologies that power our smart and connected world. Vox Media and Re/code are leaders in how the world receives media and editorial content about our smart and connected world. Born This Way Foundation is a leader in supporting the wellness of young people and empowering them to create a kinder and braver world. Together, we form a strong basis on which the rest of the technology industry and those who care about reducing online harassment can come together.

It takes a certain kind of courageous humility to say that you need and want help. After all, doing so says that you’re not able to do something on your own. That’s the reality facing our technology industry when it comes to online harassment. No single technology company can alone affect the change needed to reduce online harassment. We need to create this change together.

Online harassment is pervasive and can be vicious. It is widespread, has real-life repercussions, and is underreported. The severity and viciousness of some forms of online harassment call for urgent collective action.

According to a 2014 survey by the Pew Research Center, 40 percent of internet users have personally experienced online harassment, and 73 percent have witnessed it occur to others. One in four internet users have seen someone physically threatened online, while roughly one in five have witnessed someone being sexually harassed or stalked.

Let’s also be clear about how online harassment impacts all of us.

Fully, 70 percent of 18-24 year-old female and males have personally experienced some form of online harassment.

More than half of African-American and Hispanic Internet users say that they have experienced online harassment, compared to a third of white Internet users.

Women, particularly young women ages 18-24, are more likely than their male

As an industry, we care about this issue. Intel recently conducted a December 2015 survey of technology professionals.

75 percent of tech professionals are concerned about online harassment.

Eight in ten of tech professionals believe there is real-life risk of emotional impact for the person being harassed.

Nearly two out of three tech professionals believe that online harassment has the potential to lead to self-harm.

We are optimistic about creating positive change. Fully 69 percent of tech professionals believe that technology can change the world for the better, and 78 percent believe that the tech industry’s (as well as online communities’) best days are ahead of it. Optimism is even greater among tech professionals who are the most concerned about harassment.

We believe that online harassment is hackable. The technology industry is capable of powerful innovation. Together, we can utilize technology to develop collaborative, innovative, and broad-scale deterrents and solutions. More than 8 in 10 tech professionals agree that the tech industry needs to do more to prevent online harassment. More than 80 percent of tech professionals agree taking actions to prevent online harassment could be effective. In terms of possible deterrents and solutions, 75 percent of technology professionals believe a universal code of online conduct would help curb harassment, 51 percent believe that blocking IP addresses of known harassers would be very effective, and 47 percent believe building more tools into sites to allow users to block or report content would be effective.

Now is the time to coordinate our response. Hack Harassment is a coalition of the determined. It’s a cooperative, collaborative campaign to build on work already being done and to do more — together.

Our first step begins with an invitation to join us for a series of online and in-person hackathons in 2016.

These hackathons will bring together participants from the technology industry, media, non-profits, academia and others who care about this issue to increase accountability, advance technology solutions, and affect positive change.

Then, at the Code Conference May 31-June 2, 2016, Intel, Vox Media, Re/Code and Born This Way, together with the partners who join us, will share early findings, progress and recommendations.

For Intel, Hack Harassment goes hand-in-hand with our overall Diversity in Technology initiative to support, enhance and encourage more diversity and inclusion at Intel, and in the technology industry.

We remain laser-focused on achieving Intel’s goal to achieve full representation of women and under-represented minorities by 2020, and will share our progress and learnings next month with the release of our 2016 Annual Diversity & Inclusion Report.

In announcing Hack Harassment, Intel recognizes that behind every phone, tablet, PC, game console, and connected device is a real person – a real person with real feelings, and real needs for safety and inclusion.

We have the ability, and the responsibility, as a technology industry to hack online harassment. And we have to do it together.

We hope you’ll join us in this effort to Hack Harassment. For more information, please visit www.hackharassment.com.

]]><p>Today, Intel, Vox Media, Re/code and Lady Gaga’s Born This Way Foundation came together and asked for help. We invited the technology industry and those who care about inclusion and fighting online harassment to join us in a new, collaborative, &#8230; <a href="http://blogs.intel.com/jobs/2016/01/05/join-us-to-hack-harassment/">Read&#160;more&#160;<span class="meta-nav">&#62;</span></a></p>
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2Full Representation. Full Inclusion. Full Force Ahead!http://blogs.intel.com/jobs/2016/01/05/full-representation-full-inclusion/About UsDiversity and InclusiondiversityGlobal DiversityinclusionJobs @ IntelThu, 07 Jan 2016 12:22:18 PSThttp://blogs.intel.com/jobs/?p=3084Happy New Year and Welcome to 2016!

The New Year provides us with an opportunity to pause, reflect, and start fresh. Almost exactly one year ago at CES, Intel CEO Brian Krzanich announced Intel’s bold goal to achieve full representation of women and underrepresented minorities, in our U.S. workforce, by 2020. It’s been a year of progress and we’ve accomplished amazing things for Intel and the tech industry. Brian said, “It’s time to step up and do more,” and we did. In addition to achieving our ambitious diversity hiring and retention goals, we announced a number of innovative programs. To invest in the future of the STEM talent pipeline, we launched Intel Capital’s $125M Diversity venture fund. By investing in five women- and minority-owned startups, we achieved our supplier diversity first-year goal of $250M in spending, and we published our first Diversity in Tech Inclusion Reports (Annual and Mid-Year). By all measures, it was a great first year of progress. As we look to the future, we believe we need to broaden the conversation.

Intel is evolving. Diversity and inclusion are driving forces for our future growth. We must grow our new and emerging businesses, while keeping our core business strong and relevant. To do this, we need a village. And not a village of “like minds.” We need individuals and teams with different backgrounds, new perspectives, and diverse ways of thinking and problem-solving. It’s this
diversity of thought, experience, and styles that will drive more creative, more innovative, and faster solutions to the complex challenges and opportunities required for our growth.

As we reflected on the progress we’ve made in 2015, both internally and externally, we’re proud of the work that Intel has collectively accomplished. We’ve learned a lot, too. To truly support Intel’s evolution, support our growth, and harness the power of ALL of our collective talent, we must broaden the conversation to focus on both “diversity” and “inclusion.”

These concepts are both independent and complementary; they go hand in hand. To be clear, we remain focused on achieving Intel’s goal to achieve full representation of women and underrepresented minorities by 2020. However, even more magic happens when we broaden the conversation, and our efforts, to focus on both Diversity and Inclusion.

What do we really mean by inclusion? Inclusiveness happens when very different individuals feel free to embrace their uniqueness and have an environment where they can truly belong. We must extend the idea of inclusion to comprise all of our differences—beyond just gender and race. This includes veterans, the LGBTQ and ally community, and persons with disabilities. And it’s even broader than this. Each one of us has qualities which make us unique, shape our perspectives and experiences, and influence our styles and thinking. These different individual qualities make us stronger as an organization. Our vision for inclusion at Intel is to create an environment where ALL of our employees can bring their full selves to work. We want employees to spend their energy solving Intel’s many complex and challenging problems, not wasting it trying to fit in or assimilate. Inclusion is about creating high-performance teams where every employee is empowered and capable of doing their best work.

Focusing on diversity helps Intel create a critical mass of difference. Focusing on inclusion helps us realize the true power of that difference, and create a place where everyone matters and is
valued. We need both to truly evolve Intel and drive our future growth.

Creating the most inclusive environment is up to each of us. This is just the beginning of a broader conversation. Our dream is that you’ll join us in making Intel a more diverse AND a more inclusive place.

]]><p>Happy New Year and Welcome to 2016! The New Year provides us with an opportunity to pause, reflect, and start fresh. Almost exactly one year ago at CES, Intel CEO Brian Krzanich announced Intel’s bold goal to achieve full representation &#8230; <a href="http://blogs.intel.com/jobs/2016/01/05/full-representation-full-inclusion/">Read&#160;more&#160;<span class="meta-nav">&#62;</span></a></p>
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8An Inside Look: What’s It Like to Intern for Intel?http://blogs.intel.com/jobs/2016/01/02/whats-it-like-to-intern-for-intel/About UsJust For StudentsLife At IntelIntel interninternshipstudentJobs @ IntelMon, 11 Jan 2016 13:14:55 PSThttp://blogs.intel.com/jobs/?p=3072Just named one of the “Most Prestigious Companies to Intern For in 2016,” Intel begins the New Year on a high note. The list, published by Vault and based on surveys of over 5800 current and former interns, identifies which internships are the most desirable.

So to celebrate this achievement—and give you an inside look of what it’s like to be an intern at Intel—we asked four-time intern France Jackson to share her experiences.

At which locations were your internships?

I’ve completed two internships in the Santa Clara office and two internships in the Hillsboro office.

What business group did you intern with?

Every summer, I worked in a different group. In my first three years as an intern, I was a part of the Intel Collaborators Program. This program places multidisciplinary teams of interns on various projects across business units. While in the collaborators program I worked in the:

Automotive Solutions Division

Intel Labs – User Experience Research Group

Software Solutions Group

For my fourth internship, I worked on teams sponsored by New Business Initiative and Intel Labs.

What were your general job responsibilities and what did you find challenging about your work?

I am a User Experience (UX) Researcher and Designer. For my first internship I created a set of comprehensive personas that are used to push innovation in Intel’s automotive portfolio. My second and third internships involved developing use cases, concept videos, and proof of concepts to push product innovation. I worked with 3D camera arrays before RealSense was RealSense, using gestures to navigate 360-degree video content. I have also worked on projects that allowed Intel to get its foot in the doors of the crypto-currency market and the brain-computer interface market.

My most challenging experiences came in my most recent internship. It was difficult working on two projects at once, because one was based out of Santa Clara while the other was based out of Hillsboro. Every week I flew between California and Oregon. As exciting and fun as that sounds, it became demanding. Also, the nature of my intern experience was very intense. Knowing that my design decisions would be presented directly to Intel CEO Brian Krzanich at the end of the summer, as part of my team’s report-out, put additional pressure on me as the only UX designer on the team.

What were the most important things you learned during your internship at Intel?

This is a great question! I would say teamwork, but I like to think that’s a skill I came to Intel with. There is so much to learn at Intel. It’s a tie between good business acumen and confidence. Working at a company as large and respected as Intel really taught me a lot about corporate America and how to plan and maneuver an ambitious and intentional career path. Additionally, being in the room with some of the brightest minds in the world can be somewhat intimidating. I learned to be confident in what I know—and remember that I’m at the table for a reason.

Do you believe your internship with Intel will give you an advantage as you launch your career? If so, in what ways?

I definitely think my internships are helping to prepare me for my career, specifically one at Intel. Each year I continue to learn more about the company and the immense opportunities that are available. I’ve had the opportunity to present my work not only to the CEO but also to an external customer. During my third internship, I presented my group’s proof of concept to an external customer and garnered a commit win. The most important part of each internship is my ability to continue to build my professional network. I really believe that there are people speaking my name at Intel when I’m long gone and back at school. That’s important to me. These people are invested in me and my career development.

Tell us something about your internship at Intel that might surprise other people?

The perks. The health insurance, flying on the Intel jet, paid time off, and—most importantly—the start of the sabbatical clock!

Words of advice to future interns?

Network. Network. Network. Find mentors and meet with them regularly. Continuously work to expand your network within the company. When you get an opportunity to spend three months in a city you don’t live in, EXPLORE! Meet other interns. Some of them may turn out to be life-long friends, future business partners, and collaborators.

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My Life at Intel: China Software Engineering Director Xiaomei Zhou Shares Her Storyhttp://blogs.intel.com/jobs/2015/12/14/xiaomei-zhou-shares-her-story/About UsAround the GlobeChinaengineeringsoftwareJobs @ IntelMon, 14 Dec 2015 08:06:41 PSThttp://blogs.intel.com/jobs/?p=3056My Intel Journey

I joined Intel in 1995 as a Senior Software Engineer at the company’s Arizona site. I then moved on to Oregon, and then California—all with Intel. For the past four years, I’ve been working for Intel from Shanghai. In my experience, the Shanghai site is one of the most exciting places to work, because I’m surrounded by super-talented, passionate young people every day. They make me young again.

My Workplace

So many great words come to my mind when I think about Intel. Let me pick the top five and why I believe so.

Diversity: We come to Intel with different backgrounds and experiences. Each of us brings unique values. The beauty lies in our differences and how we leverage these differences to make Intel an even greater company.

Integrity: Intel is built on a very solid ethical foundation. I’m proud to work at a company that does right the things.

Growth: Intel offers tremendous opportunities that support its employees’ career growth. Intel has invested a great deal in promoting employees’ skill-set growth in so many areas. We grow together with Intel. I am grateful for what Intel has offered me. Without Intel, I would not be who I am. The training I’ve received from Intel has helped me not only at work but has also helped me tremendously in my personal life.

Family: Making Intel a great place to work is one of the things the company is most serious about. I feel that my co-workers are part of my extended family, so I’m super-motivated to come to work every day.

Pride: Intel is an amazing company, so I take great pride in working here.

My Most Memorable Occasion

A few years ago, I worked overnight with the team at the Intel office to fix a challenging bug. We didn’t fix it until the next morning, and when the mission was completed, I looked up and saw the sun beaming through the office window, shining on my computer. I’ll never forget the rewarding feeling I had at that moment—and the pride I felt at being part of such a committed team. It’s a privilege to work with so many wonderful people every day.

Why Intel

After working at Intel for more than 20 years, I often joke about my blood being Intel Blue. On the emotional side, it is true, though. I take pride in working at Intel, because Intel is a fantastic company. Countless companies are making good profits and producing good products. Yet only a few companies can proudly say they’ve transformed their industry and made such a huge difference in people’s lives. And Intel is definitely one of those few. For that, I am forever grateful that 20 years ago I made the decision to join Intel, when I had multiple offers in hand.

My Motto in Life

I very much agree with a quote from the noted life and career coach Milissa Rosberg: “Confidence is like muscle, and the more you exercise it, the stronger it becomes.” I take every challenging opportunity as an exercise to build my confidence muscle.

]]><p>My Intel Journey I joined Intel in 1995 as a Senior Software Engineer at the company&#8217;s Arizona site. I then moved on to Oregon, and then California—all with Intel. For the past four years, I&#8217;ve been working for Intel from Shanghai. In my &#8230; <a href="http://blogs.intel.com/jobs/2015/12/14/xiaomei-zhou-shares-her-story/">Read&#160;more&#160;<span class="meta-nav">&#62;</span></a></p>
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2My Life at Intel: Quality Assurance Sr. Manager Arati Sankhe Shares Her Storyhttp://blogs.intel.com/jobs/2015/12/12/arati-sankhe-shares-her-story/About UsAround the GlobeengineeringIntel SecurityQAquality assurancesecuritysoftwareJobs @ IntelSat, 12 Dec 2015 18:10:42 PSThttp://blogs.intel.com/jobs/?p=3053My Intel Journey

I joined Intel Security Group, formerly McAfee, in late 2004 as Quality Assurance (QA) Lead. I was given opportunities to aid in development efforts, lead QA teams for multiple products, work with product managers, and manage deployment. These opportunities allowed me to show my best work and gave me the visibility I needed to grow in my career. My efforts and potential were noticed as I took on any and all challenges that were thrown at me. Did I ever fail? Of course I did. If I look at my journey, it has been a series of ups and downs. But I feel proud about how I’ve taken the downs in stride and learned from them—and made the most of the ups to help me succeed in whatever I put my hands in. Currently I lead an engineering team of over 70 people, and I know I still have plenty to achieve and a long way to go. I’m trying to pay it forward as much as I can, by working with the diverse talent in my business unit and getting them the exposure and opportunities they rightly deserve. I would like to show the same faith and trust in them and provide them with the many opportunities that I was provided by my leadership team.

Throughout my career, I’ve had many different managers with diverse management styles. From some I learned how and what to be; from others I learned what not to be. But each provided an enriching experience that helped me grow, personally and professionally.

My professional journey would not have been what it is if not for the self-confidence that my parents instilled in me, the support of my in-laws who were always there when needed, my husband who not only celebrated in my success but cheered me during my failures, and the love of my kids who did not judge me for the times I was not around when they needed me. I am truly blessed!

My Workplace

In five words: “My workplace is my second home.”

I feel as comfortable and included in my workplace and with my teams as I am with my family. I guide every member of my team as I would my siblings or kids. I treat them with the same respect, integrity, and dignity that I would expect from them. I feel very loyal and passionate towards my work and workplace.

My Most Memorable Occasions

Among my most memorable occasions: when I got to lead and groom my own team for the first time in 2006; whenever some of my former team members reach out to tell me they miss working with me; and when my daughter chose me when she was assigned to write about the person whom she would most like to be.

My Motto in Life

My motto has been: “Believe in yourself, be positive, put in your 100%, and results will follow.” I have truly experienced in my professional and personal life that luck is nothing but an intersection of preparation and opportunity. You cannot succeed without either. And amazing things happen when you are prepared; more opportunities than you expect will come knocking on your door. Preparation is not only working hard, but working smart—being clear about what your priorities and goals are. Identifying your strengths and weaknesses. And most importantly, being sincere and honest towards yourself, your work, and the people around you.

Why Intel

Intel has been developing leading-edge technologies for decades now and continues to promote innovation. The company has also demonstrated its leadership with its diversity initiative. It has an environment and culture that allows employees to thrive, grow, and achieve their highest potential. It’s evident from the many success stories within the company. Intel is an ocean of opportunities and, more importantly, very sincere about the development and growth of all of its employees. Their sincerity in the initiatives they sign up for, such as diversity and inclusion, distinguishes them from others. Intel has the vision and will to drive economic empowerment, diversity and inclusion, and positive social and environmental impact—which makes it a great organization to be associated with and work for.

]]><p>My Intel Journey I joined Intel Security Group, formerly McAfee, in late 2004 as Quality Assurance (QA) Lead. I was given opportunities to aid in development efforts, lead QA teams for multiple products, work with product managers, and manage deployment. &#8230; <a href="http://blogs.intel.com/jobs/2015/12/12/arati-sankhe-shares-her-story/">Read&#160;more&#160;<span class="meta-nav">&#62;</span></a></p>
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4My Life at Intel: Malaysia and Singapore MNC Lead Karen Chow Shares Her Storyhttp://blogs.intel.com/jobs/2015/12/06/karen-chow-shares-her-story/About UsAround the GlobeLife At IntelMalaysiaMNC LeadsalesSingaporeJobs @ IntelMon, 07 Dec 2015 17:04:29 PSThttp://blogs.intel.com/jobs/?p=3042My Journey

I was born and bred in Kuala Lumpur. I started my first job in Malaysia’s IT industry with a local IT solution distribution house as a product manager in 1996. During my nine years there, I worked with two U.S.-based multinational companies—Nortel Networks and Symantec—before joining Intel in 2005. Now I manage a team of multinational corporation (MNC) account managers from Malaysia and Singapore that supports our large OEM accounts in country. Throughout my career, I’ve always been involved in sales roles, as I love working and engaging with people.

My Workplace

Of my 19 years of working experience, more than half have been spent with Intel—which is a clear indicator that this is a great company to work for. Intel has provided an excellent platform for me to grow, both personally and professionally. I’ve never felt bored at Intel—even after being here for over a decade—as I’m constantly learning new things. Knowledge and technologies at the company never stop evolving. Intel also promotes a culture of work/life balance, which is very important to women like me who want to manage a meaningful career and a good family life at the same time. I have two children now, ages four and six, and I’m still able to be where I am today—managing a team of four senior employees across two countries.

My Inspiration

I’m inspired by the company itself. The reason is that Intel has the capabilities and passion to make a difference in this world. The company keeps illuminating new possibilities and ways to improve life through technology. Being a part of a company that contributes back to society is very meaningful to me. It’s what keeps me motivated and eager to come to work every day.

My Life Motto

“You never try, you’ll never know.” I use this to guide me in every single challenge that I face in life and in work. To me, possibilities are endless. Most of the time, limitation is only what you impose on yourself. If you are determined and put up a good fight in everything you do, you will never look back and regret not trying hard enough.

Why Intel

I choose Intel because I believe that the company is capable of making important, positive changes in peoples’ lives—and in how the world works—through technology, and I’m proud to be a part of that. If you want to explore yourself and the world, Intel is the best place to start.

]]><p>My Journey I was born and bred in Kuala Lumpur. I started my first job in Malaysia’s IT industry with a local IT solution distribution house as a product manager in 1996. During my nine years there, I worked with two U.S.-based &#8230; <a href="http://blogs.intel.com/jobs/2015/12/06/karen-chow-shares-her-story/">Read&#160;more&#160;<span class="meta-nav">&#62;</span></a></p>
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1Intel Wins 2015 EMEA Candidate Experience Awardhttp://blogs.intel.com/jobs/2015/12/03/intel-wins-2015-emea-candidate-experience-award/About UsIntel in the Newsawardcandidate experienceJobs @ IntelThu, 03 Dec 2015 15:09:32 PSThttp://blogs.intel.com/jobs/?p=3036Intel has just been recognized as a 2015 EMEA Candidate Experience Award winner. The Candidate Experience Awards are presented by Talent Board and are based on detailed survey responses of a random selection of candidates from across the Greater Europe Region (GER) in 2014-2015. This year, 37 winners were selected among 140 companies who took part—with a total of nearly 15,000 candidate responses.

With so many companies participating this year, the bar for award winners was especially high—making the 2015 Award all the more impressive for Intel’s GER Global Talent Acquisition team. Sally Klee and Joanna Cesarz accepted the award on behalf of the team at an Awards Reception in London on December 1, 2015.

The Awards Reception followed a Symposium which included presentations and panel discussions that covered a variety of candidate experience-related topics.

]]><p>Intel has just been recognized as a 2015 EMEA Candidate Experience Award winner. The Candidate Experience Awards are presented by Talent Board and are based on detailed survey responses of a random selection of candidates from across the Greater Europe &#8230; <a href="http://blogs.intel.com/jobs/2015/12/03/intel-wins-2015-emea-candidate-experience-award/">Read&#160;more&#160;<span class="meta-nav">&#62;</span></a></p>
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My Life at Intel: Intel Japan President Makiko Eda Shares Her Storyhttp://blogs.intel.com/jobs/2015/12/02/intel-japan-president-makiko-eda/About UsAround the GlobeLife At IntelJapanmarketingpresidentJobs @ IntelWed, 02 Dec 2015 21:50:05 PSThttp://blogs.intel.com/jobs/?p=3028My Journey

In the late 1980s, when I graduated from Waseda University in Tokyo, the Equal Employment Opportunity Act for Men and Women had just been enacted. But the chances for women to find meaningful employment were still very limited. Therefore, rather than taking a job in Tokyo, I chose to embark on the path of study abroad at a graduate school in the United States. After spending a total of nine years in the U.S., including time in marketing for a medical care facility, I returned to Japan. Shortly after starting work in Japan, I received a job offer from Intel, entirely by chance. I began my journey with Intel in 2000 as a marketing research manager. Over the years I was given opportunities to take on positions with greater and greater responsibility, including Director of Marketing, and was then promoted to become the first female president of Intel Japan in October 2013.

My Opportunities

Prior to my current position, I was in charge of marketing for the Asia Pacific region and was based out of Hong Kong. I learned a variety of things from each country, such as South Korea, Indonesia, and Vietnam. Each country around the AP region has its own respective history and circumstances that have led to the unique cultures and economies we experience in each country today. Even if I understand the local people well, I believe there are customs and conventional practices that just cannot be explained. And when it comes to those local customs and practices, I don’t think to myself, “Why is it like this!” On the other hand, the things that we are seeking as humans are ultimately the same, so when I’m able to learn and understand something from a local area, the moment I realize that “this is not the same,” I am of course delighted.

Diversity at Intel

Intel is a technology company. Value is created by both leading-edge technologies and the people who have the vision and skills and energy to unearth needs worldwide and offer products and services that meet those needs. Intel has long considered how to increase the numbers of women and minority employees, and in 2015 Intel renewed its commitment to diversity as a corporate-wide aid to our success. For example, if there are X percent of talented and skilled women in the general population, Intel has set a target to raise its in-house percentage to that level by 2020. In addition, this includes not only increasing hiring of minorities but also providing support and training so that these people will be promoted fairly.

]]><p>My Journey In the late 1980s, when I graduated from Waseda University in Tokyo, the Equal Employment Opportunity Act for Men and Women had just been enacted. But the chances for women to find meaningful employment were still very limited. &#8230; <a href="http://blogs.intel.com/jobs/2015/12/02/intel-japan-president-makiko-eda/">Read&#160;more&#160;<span class="meta-nav">&#62;</span></a></p>
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My Life at Intel: China CIO Ben Wang Shares His Storyhttp://blogs.intel.com/jobs/2015/11/24/intel-china-cio-ben-wang/About UsAround the GlobeChinaCIOmanufacturingJobs @ IntelTue, 24 Nov 2015 21:40:22 PSThttp://blogs.intel.com/jobs/?p=3012My Intel Journey

I joined Intel in the summer of 1988 as a student intern in Fab6’s Information System Group in Chandler, AZ. I was hired into the group as a full-time employee the following spring. In 1993, I was transferred to Sematech as an Intel assignee working on setting up a standard for the U.S. semiconductor industry’s Manufacturing Execution System. Sematech was formed with the objective of reestablishing the U.S. semiconductor industry’s worldwide leadership role. There was a famous Sematech chart that showed a direct relationship between the forming of Sematech and the return of the U.S. semiconductor industry to its leading position. I was very proud to have had the opportunity to represent Intel for two-and-a-half years at Sematech, whose founder and first CEO was Intel’s own Robert Noyce.

In 1996, I returned to Intel Arizona and joined the Component Automation System Group within the Technology and Manufacturing Group. There, I was focused on system integration solutions for all Intel assembly/test factories. In 2007, I left Intel and moved to China, where I worked as the country manager for a small Asia-based company that was providing IT outsourcing services to regional customers and developing a cutting-edge instant messaging language translation product. As the country manager for this small company, I owned end-to-end operations including product development, sales, marketing, internal operations, and customer support.

With 2008 came an opportunity for me to return to Intel. Its new state-of-the-art 300 mm fabrication factory was searching for an Automation Manager to be part of the factory startup team. My experience in running business operations in China and my previous Intel background landed me the job and introduced me to a new domain of semiconductor fabrication processes and the highest level of factory automation operations. After seven years of Dalian factory operations, the Intel IT management team asked me to lead the IT enabling effort for the new external design collaboration business, which brought me to my current role in Design Engineering Computing in Shanghai.

A Few Words to Describe My Workplace

Teamwork, by aligning priorities and communicating with customers and work groups. Multi-tasking, based on business-driven long and short-term work plans.

My Most Memorable Occasion

It was 1997 and, as a young engineer, I proposed a radical approach for a green field site startup and people readiness system. It was bought in by the site IT manager and his staff, with a result of multi-weeks pull-in for the entire site startup. The approach became a new standard for all startups since then.

Why Intel

No matter what level an employee is at, he or she has a chance to do something really big with impact to the industry and even the worldwide computing user community.

]]><p>My Intel Journey I joined Intel in the summer of 1988 as a student intern in Fab6’s Information System Group in Chandler, AZ. I was hired into the group as a full-time employee the following spring. In 1993, I was transferred &#8230; <a href="http://blogs.intel.com/jobs/2015/11/24/intel-china-cio-ben-wang/">Read&#160;more&#160;<span class="meta-nav">&#62;</span></a></p>
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